Revolutionary molecules turn bland food bodacious

By CAROLYN ABRAHAM
From Saturday's Globe and Mail

In a small office just west of the New Jersey Turnpike, researchers are taking the human taste bud into a brave new world.

Here, it is not cream or milk that the employees of Linguagen Corp. add to their morning java, but a dash of a biological compound that fools their brain into thinking that black, bitter coffee is as smooth as a milky double latte: All the flavour, none of the calories, and the effects last only as long as it takes them to drain their mugs.

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